Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
2 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
3 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
4 | He mentioned that he sought advice from ‘ the masters ’ for particularly scientific sections , and Boerhaave , Boyle , Blair , Grew , Halley , Hales and Newton are all acknowledged in the text . |
5 | Success will depend very largely on the dancer 's own sense of timing and ability so to perform the gestures created that they convey meaning which makes sense within the context of the ballet . |
6 | He found that they caused radiation effects such as reddening of the skin , conjunctivitis and the fogging of photographic plates , though tests showed that the level of traditional radiation was normal . |
7 | A survey by BAND , the Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare , which supports such schemes , found that they enabled 59% of parents to take full-time work , 36% to take training , and 22% to receive promotion . |
8 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
9 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
10 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
11 | As I checked in at Baghdad airport , I found that I had 100kg of excess baggage . |
12 | Now I found that I got results that way . |
13 | Been shopping lately and found that you bought clothes that did n't fit your toddler ? |
14 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
15 | When asked by Geoffrey Fisher to explain his reasons , he found that he had difficulty in finding a reason . |
16 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
17 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
18 | Fifty-eight per cent of respondents reported that exchange-rate movements had affected their cash flows , and more than 80 per cent reported that they took action to protect cash flows — nearly 40 per cent by maintaining a foreign currency bank account , 24 per cent by taking out forward contracts and two-thirds by sending out their invoices in sterling . |
19 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |
20 | Ten minutes after take-off severe vibration was experienced , such that the pilot of the Stearman reported that he had difficulty in holding the control column . |
21 | Mr. Townsend reported that he had difficulty getting any sense out of the staff at Ostend , and in the end he completed an adjustment voucher given to him by the purser on the ship . |
22 | It was only when it shut with a rusty creak that he realized that he had company . |
23 | I realized that I needed food and a place to get warm . |
24 | Mrs Stych faltered for a moment and then realized that she meant Hank . |
25 | Finally she had collapsed on the floor sobbing and at that point realized that she needed help . |
26 | We met at the youth centre in Chelmsford , checked that everybody had passports , E111 's ( health forms for the European Community ) and luggage and set off for Ramsgate . |
27 | Most agreed that they had moments of nostalgia and longing to be back on the island , and one man , when pressed about why he admitted to such feelings , thought for a moment and then said ‘ It was chust a far better place … ’ |
28 | Before we married , my husband and I agreed that we wanted children . |
29 | She said that some social workers were uneasy about that , and she agreed that it involved trust , but it was also to avoid abandoning the problem to someone else . |
30 | We recommended that you have photographs taken when we gave you advice on assessing your shape in Chapter 3 . |